Governors rally in mountain meet set to shape Kennedy bid
Four governors meet at Montana Glacier National Park to map strategy and keep Kennedy from an all- Kennedy convention win while North Dakota voters choose a new senator. The vote tests farm belt sentiment and GOP strength ahead of November.
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Associated Press
Montana
North Dakota
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Glacier National Park
Los Angeles
Robert E. Meyner
New Jersey
John E.davis
Quentin N. Burdick
William Langer
Ezra Taft Benson
Summaries of a Busy State News Day
State briefs report the Cabell County Court had authority to enter into two 1956 and 1957 contracts for property revaluation. Ohio River barge traffic hits an all time high on ten miles with longer shipments. Harold Lee Howard, 16, gets life in prison after saying crime was due to lack of engaging TV. Governor Anderson at Glacier National Park plans a televised "report to the People" outlining a temporary economic program tonight at 7 with all state stations carrying it.
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State Supreme Court
Cabell
U. S
Ohio River
Glacier National Park
Mont
City Drivers Warned They Need New Permits
Beckley Police Chief M. E. Ty ree reminds motorists that city drivers licenses expire Thursday. New 1960 61 licenses may be purchased at police headquarters or in the office of the City Recorder. The cost of a license may save a larger fine for driving with an expired license.
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Beckley
M. E. Tyree
City Recorder
Mrs. R. W. Kiser Undergoes Planned Surgery
Mrs. R. W. Kiser, 72, of Sophia, is a Raleigh General Hospital patient under observation and treatment. She is expected to undergo major surgery Wednesday.
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R. W. Kiser
Sophia
Raleigh General Hospital
Arthritis Sufferer Seeks Free Information
A person describes a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis rheumatism and bursitis and says they have returned to an active life. They offer free information and contact details for relief and guidance.
Abortion Trial Delayed To October Term
Dr. R. J. Howard of 219 S Heber St faces four abortion counts and the case is continued to the October term of Raleigh County Criminal Court. The March term was abandoned due to counsel conflicts and Dr. Howard’s illness among other scheduling issues. Judge Harry L. McCreery excused jurors until 9 a.m. Thursday as cases could be disposed of without them. Edward J. Riffle’s trial was postponed amid related civil suits involving Mrs. Paul H. Bischof and her administratrix status. Lewis Lee indicted for maiming appeared likely to enter a plea. his lawyer was tied up in Circuit Court.
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R. J. Howard
S. Heber St
Raleigh County
Edward J. Riffle
Lancaster
Ohio
Riffle
Paul H. Bischof
Wheeling
Foundations Board Faces Scrutiny Over Kline and Fadell
Attorney General cites 14 year tenure of executive director Kline with 604,500 in salaries and benefits. Kline, 57, resigned amid illness and hospitalization. Mondale reports Fadell was discharged by the foundation and received fees from Chicago mail solicitation firms. Fadell disputes details and says comments should go to the foundation’s executive committee.
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Kline
Mondale
Fadell
Foundation
Chicago
Fred Fadell and Associates
Raleigh Health Department Secretary Confined Home Illness
Miss Mildred Miller, secretary in the Raleigh County Health Department, is confined to her home because of illness.
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Mildred Miller
Raleigh County Health Department
PASTEETH Denture Powder Promises Stable Comfort
Fat talk or laughter causes fear of loose dentures. PASTERTH denture powder claims to hold plates firmer and more comfortable with no gummy taste. It avoids pauses and odor by a non acidic formula. Available at Soy drug counter.
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Pasterth
Soy
Governors Use Of Guard Planes Draws Scrutiny
Illegal Use Of (Continued From Page One) describes governors arriving by National Guard aircraft to Craig Colorado. It notes 26 governors reportedly traveled with larger parties than spouses and aides. Montana National Guard general greeted a governor but found no one aboard the craft. Air Force National Guard Bureau says no violations reported and calls for strict compliance with travel rules.
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Craig
Colo
McNichols
Montana
National Guard
S. H. Mitchell
Washington
Air Force National Guard Bureau
Government program costs tied to state participation
Randolph estimated the program would cost about 380 million dollars in its first full year if all states joined. The plan makes available work and counts failure to accept suitable jobs when determining continued needs.
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Randolph
Stephen's Lake project to get roads soon
Stephen's Lake project official said clearing for roads at the site should be ready for bulldozer use by next week. After roads are built, state augering machinery will be brought in. Triangulation tying the project to the US Coast and Geodetic system is nearly complete.
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Robert Davis
Stephen’s Branch Lake
Stephen’s Branch
United States Coast and
Raleigh County
Cecil Miller
Millard Tyree
Courthouse Square
Fayette Street
John Ward
Mollie Canaday
Vivian Canaday
Smith
Speech reactions from Wiley Johnson and Eisenhower on world unity
The latest trip reports prompt praise from Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin for an American viewpoint. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson hopes the beneficial effects outweigh losses. President Eisenhower accuses Soviet and Red Chinese leaders of deliberately trying to split the free world and worsen allied friction.
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Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Eisenhower
Authority To Whack Continued From Page One
The article discusses increasing quotas for American sugar producers and other countries with small quotas. It notes the possibility that some nations currently without quotas, such as Brazil, could receive one.
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Brazil
Senate approves fast start funding to aid program
Senate approves an allocation to begin the program immediately and will urge President Eisenhower to seek an additional million in the coming Congressional appropriation. The bill passed without opposition after speeches by coal state senators endorsing it.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Domestic Rubles and Rationed Hopes in Moscow
A visitor sees Moscow's 40 rubles per dollar on the street versus four officially, with tourist rates and black market realities shaping life. Wages hover around 700 rubles monthly, shortages persist in clothing and cabbage costs, and long waits for goods push some to pay under the counter. Government spurs security measures and Khrushchev’s promises spark both optimism and doubt amid rising consumer hunger and international tension.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Communist Party
Khrushchev
U.S.S.R
Beckleyan Sentenced Fined On Guilty Plea
Morris Hope 18 of Mulberry St pleaded guilty in Raleigh County Criminal Court to attempting a felony. He was sentenced to months in jail and fined. Police say he entered Mrs. W F Smiths home on South Fayette St through a back window about 9 p.m. May 25 and thefts of a clock radio toaster bedspreads and groceries valued at 154 were charged. He received credit for time already served.
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Morris Hope
Mulberry St
Raleigh County
Beckley
Hope
W. F. Smith
South Fayette Street
C. Berkley Lilly
After Whisky Beer Spree Bud Miner Hospitalized
Report states a drunken brawl followed a whisky and beer spree ending with a gunshot wound to a miner's spine. A drinking crony was jailed as a suspect, and authorities report the incident occurred amid tavern-row tensions.
Moonshine fueled shooting leaves miner paralyzed in Mullens
Bud miner Garrett Whitt, 37, father of five, was shot point blank after a moonshine and beer binge with Harley Mackie Lester, 22, and others. Whitt received a bullet to the spine and is listed critical at Charleston Memorial Hospital. Lester is jailed on an open charge. pattern of prior violence tied to the incident is noted. Two young daughters witnessed the shooting at the Whitt home near Bud, while state trooper James Fairchild and deputy Ward Sheppard investigated from Pineville.
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Whitt
Harley McFay
Mackie) Lester
Whitts
Charleston Memorial Hospital
Wyoming General Hospital
Lester
Herndon
Rebecca Lester
Bud
Mullens Hospital
Lula Mae
Mackie
Larry
Matt Bishop
Ellison
High Court Hears Junk Yard Law Test
The Supreme Court was asked to review Kanawha Circuit Court ruling upholding West Virginia’s new junk yard law. The act bans existing yards within 100 feet of roads and new yards within 1000 feet of primary highways or 300 feet of secondary roads, with fencing to obscure view. Plaintiff W C Farley of Oak Hill Wrecking operates on U.S. 21 near Oak Hill and sues Road Commissioner Patrick C. Graney.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Kanawha County
West Virginia
Road Commission
Kanawha
Frank L. Taylor
W. C. Farley
Oak Hill, Wrecking
Driver education shifts to summer school amid reform talk
Education critics and many superintendents back moving driver education from the regular program into summer sessions. The NEA and civic groups push for quality courses with high school credit for students who complete them, reflecting parent pressure driving the change.
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Key
Deaths and Funerals in Pemberton and Raleigh County
Funeral services for Samuel Cassity 81 of Pemberton will be at Pemberton Baptist Church at 2 p m Thursday with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Cassity died Monday in a local hospital. he was born in Kentucky and worked for Pemberton Coal and Coke Co. from 1913 to 1948. Survivors include 17 children and 34 grandchildren. Pallbearers named. Also noted is the death of Mrs. Harper of Beckley with services at Sweeneyburg Baptist Church and burial at Caffee Cemetery. Alby Morrison 51 of Harvey died in a Minden nursing home. funeral at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with burial at Hill Top Cemetery. Survivors include wife, six sons, three daughters, four brothers, one sister, and many grandchildren.
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Samuel Cassity
Pemberton
Pemberton Baptist Church
Shirley Donnelly
Sunset Memorial Park
Cassity
Round County
Pemberton Coal and Coke Co
Baptist Church
Morehead
Lela Bennett
Waverly
Ohio
L. B. Wickline
Mullens
C. F. Shackell
Detroit
Mich
Reece Tabor
Clearwater
Fla
Allie
Cletus
Kenneth
James
Mabscott
Charlie
Eddie
Crab Orchard
Fredrick
Coal City
Webb and Neal
Mason Fink
Curtis Blevins
Kelly Brammer
Richard McVey
Leeburn Pack
John Carter
Sweeneyburg Baptist ‘Church
Alvin J. Cook
Robert Perry
Caffee
Mount Tabor
A. G. Rice
Beckley
Roy
Orlando
Samuel
Oliver
Cine Sweeney
Grassy Meadows
Rose and Quesenberry
Robert Sweeney
Danny Sweeney
Phillip Sweeney
Leon Miller
Robert Painter
John Mitchem
Alby Morrison
Harvey
Minden
Bidwell
George Morrison
Clara Mae Morrison
Frank
Francis
John
Charles
Sam
Alberta
Nancy
Mary
Raymond
Tom
Robert
Russell
Milwaukee
Wis
Pearl Ruff
Dewitt
Tyree
Edwards, Palmetto funeral home owner, dies en route home
Leon Edwards 64 of Palmetto Fla died Monday in Tampa while traveling home from Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. He rode train home with his family meeting by ambulance then suffered a stroke and died five minutes later. Survived by wife Dorothy, son Richard of Palmetto and six grandchildren plus Dr Francis Edwards.
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Leon Edwards
Palmetto
Fla
Francis Edwards
Beckley
Tampa
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Edwards
Baltimore Hospital
Mrs Carrye Fox Gwinn Funeral Services Held
Mrs Carrye Fox Gwinn 68 of 143 W Kentucky St Tucson Ariz formerly of Beckley will have funeral services in Tucson on Wednesday. She died in a Tucson hospital of cancer. Surviving sister Mrs Gladys S Surbaugh of MacArthur is named among the survivors.
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Carrye Fox Gwinn
Kentucky St
Tucson
Ariz
Beckley
Frank W Barbour dies after illness in Beckley VA Hospital
Frank William Barbour aged 52 of Page died at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital after a three week illness. The body is at C. D. Trent Funeral Home awaiting arrangements.
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Frank William Barbour
Page
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Rizzuto Rites Held for Stefano Rizzuto at Dayton Church
Funeral services for Stefano Rizzuto Rich, 54, of Dayton Ohio, will be held at 1 p m Wednesday at Dorothy Assembly of God Church with Rev Ernest Edmonds officiating. Burial follows in Union Cemetery Lawson. He died Sunday in a Dayton hospital. Survivors include his wife Eva, father Antonio Rizzuto Whitesville two brothers Mike Whitesville Joe Rich Sylvester three sisters Normal Perry Blue Diamond Ky Joe Landy Whitesville and Hubert Wright Dayton. Body arrives at Valley Funeral Home Whitesville this afternoon.
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Stefano Rizzuto
Rich
Dayton
Ohio
Dorothy Assembly of God
Ernest Edmond
Union Cemetery
Lawson
Rizzuto
Raleigh County
Tate Manufacturing Co
Eva
Antonio Rizzuto
Whitesville
Mike
Joe Rich
Sylvester
Normal Perry
Blue Diamond
Joe Landy
Hubert Wright
Valley Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs Booker in Washington DC
Funeral services for Mrs Cassie Booker, long time Pax Long Branch resident, are set for 10 a m Wednesday in a Washington DC Catholic church. She died in a New York hospital while visiting her daughter Miss Verna Booker. Criss Booker her husband died in 1955. Survivors include her mother Mrs Prissilla Abbott of Washington DC four sons Earl Jerry Rudy Bobby three daughters Joyce McIntosh Verna Dorotha seven sisters two brothers and she lived in Fayette County 30 years.
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Cassie Booker
Pax
Long Branch
Washington, D. C
New York
Verna Booker
Criss
Prissilla Abbott
Earl
Jerry
Rudy
California
Bobby
Detroit
Mich
Joyce McIntoch
Verna
Dorotha Booker
Altie Stone
Dorotha Abbott
Harriett Freeman
Massie Williams
Eunice Marshall
Annie Wheeler
Evergreen
Marie Bailey
Clarence
George Abbott
Fayette County
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Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
Edmund G. Brown
Meyner
Loveless
Brown
George Docking
Kansas
Kennedy
Death Federation
Harold Lee Howard
Kentucky
Louisville
Lela S. Wier
Arbor Hills Drive
P. D. Box
Jackson
Mississippi
Kenny
Mr. Sweeney
Radio
Coffe Maker
Stephen's Lake
Beckleyan
Bud Miner
James Fairchild
Ward Sheppard
Pineville
NEA
Minnie Harper
Minnie S. Harper
Route 1
Beckley, Wil
Ramblin
U.S
Tiere
THE
Mobilgas
Barehart Rambler Company
Syuote
Mrs
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